Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-08 Thread Dmitry Terentiev
Adam, Very often newbie to OSM start their contribution with moving object according misaligned imagery.They just don't know imagery can be offset. It's can be detected automatically. Plus overleaping or unconnected ways, ways without tags, intersections without shared nodes. It will be grate

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: Dmitry Terentiev [mailto:djterent...@yandex.ru] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 12:16 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism Adam, Very often newbie to OSM start their contribution with moving object

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-07 Thread Arun Ganesh
Its the edits that mess up the existing data and make it difficult to undo that are most undesirable: 1) If the user is new, these would usually be in the first few changesets: a) untagged ways not connected to anything b) ways that are shifted c) single node shifted way out of place d) untagged

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 7. April 2012 18:00 schrieb Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com: g) ALL CAPS in name tags I've also met a very experienced user who insisted on Caps in NAME-tags. Unfortunately. He cited the on the ground rule for this. Afaik he is not active any more though, since the license change

[OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-06 Thread Adam Velkei
Dear mappers, I'm looking into ways to detect harmful map edits in an automated way. I'm fairly new to OSM and I'd like to hear about what typical mistakes have you seen while editing and what kind of changes would you consider to be vandalism. Any insight would be much appreciated. Best

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-06 Thread pec...@gmail.com
I think most humanly possible way is to set up monitoring for concrete region and follow changesets. Usually those with vandalism don't have very insightful changeset comments, also user names can sometimes indicate intent. I think there is no way computer can detect this except using our defined

Re: [OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

2012-04-06 Thread Joakim Fors
On 6 apr 2012, at 21:26, Adam Velkei wrote: Dear mappers, I'm looking into ways to detect harmful map edits in an automated way. I'm fairly new to OSM and I'd like to hear about what typical mistakes have you seen while editing and what kind of changes would you consider to be